VacationSelector

Genoa or Toronto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Genoa
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GenoaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 30 points.30
GenoaToronto
Score7343
Swim season months41
Beaches 10 km3758
Coast distance0 km533 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 32 points.32
GenoaToronto
Score5082
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6912,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1439
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 12 points.12
GenoaToronto
Score5543
Museums within 10 km4735
Museums within 2 km of centre3325
Share of museums within 2 km %7071
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
GenoaToronto
Score5069
Drinking venues within 4 km6371,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6664
Nightclubs within 4 km17103
Nature & day trips. Genoa leads by 9 points.9
GenoaToronto
Score3526
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
GenoaToronto
Score3857
Tourist attractions within 2 km2123
Park area within 2 km29 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Genoa and Toronto are level on 61.
GenoaToronto
Score6161
Notable places within 2 km130128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
GenoaToronto
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 18 points.18
GenoaToronto
Score7355
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureGenoaToronto
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m76 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaToronto
City population558,7452,794,356
People per km²2,3254,434
Museums within 10 km5132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre41102
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months1 month

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.